Communication Telegraph from KERMAN to YAZD and DUZDAP. Road The SHIRAZ-KERMAN road is in use by motor traffic. Stage 3 KERMAN-DUZDAP 260 miles. Via BAM & NASRATABAD Place Approx. height Max. height in stage Distance to next place Remarks KERMAN 5680 BAM 3500 DUZDAP 5000 9000 110 150 - Motor road to BAM, NASRATABAD & DUZDAP Description From KERMAN the route runs S.E. to BAM to avoid the DASHT-I-LUT an extensive salt desert with sandhills. Leaving KERMAN the route crosses a desolate sandy waste, then over low gravely sandstone hills to a patch of cultivation and on over a clay plateau cut up by water and along a low plateau bordered by hills. Crossing broken hills the route then runs along a bare plain of black gravel between DARZIN and BAM. Leaving BAM the route passes over a flat treeless plain to RUSTAMABAD where there are patches of cultivation. Thence across a hard sandy plain, changing to gravel, and scattered with sand hills to SHURGAR. From SHURGAR up a valley and over a watershed to NASRATABAD SIPI. From NASRATABAD SIPI, which lies in a valley 7 miles broad, under water in winter and salty in summer, the route runs over a level plain and then over hills to the GARAGHEH plain; then across undulating hills to an extensive plain to PIPLI, and on across broken country to DUZDAP. Communication Telegraph from KERMAN to BAM and NASRATABAD SIPI and DUZDAP. Road Road to NASRATABAD SIPI probably fit for motor traffic. Used for wheels when telegraph line constructed.
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